Sadiron-holder



I. LEE.

SADIRON HOLDER.

APPLICATION man FEB.2.1921,

1,394,998, Patented Oct. 25, 1921.,

L3' /m M@ sob UNITEDV STATES' PATENT OFFICE.

J'. LEE, OF SEATTLE,

WASHINGTON.

simmon-HOLDER.

Application led February 2, 1921.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, IRA LEE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the countyof King and State of Washington, have invented a certain new and useful mprovement in Sadiron-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to sad-iron holders which are adapted to be interchangeably used as a wall bracket,'or as a stand upon an ironing board or table top. l

The object of my invention is the provision of an inexpensively constructed device of this character which will be convenient to use and afford a holder in which a hot iron may be placed with an absence of danger of setting on re or scorching the support to whichthe holder is attached.

The invention struction and the combination thereof in a sad-iron holder as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the preferred embodiment of the invention,-

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the holder and showing by broken lines an iron supported thereby. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of Fig. 1 with a portion of the backing ieee roken away. Fig. 3 is a longitudina sectional view taken substantially through 3 3 of Figs. 1 and 2 and indicating a sad-iron by broken lines. Fig. 4 is a perspective View of spring clamping device of the holder, shown detached.

The holder illustrated in said drawings consists of a hollow body adapted to be detachably held in spaced relations to a vertical wall or above a table top, and is provided with resilient sad-iron enga ing devices.

Said body, denoted general y by reference numeral 5, is desirably of an oblong shape and constructed of pressed sheet metal.

As shown, the body 5 comprises a face plate 6 having a peripheral flange 7 surrounding a back plate 8 and to which the lattFer is secured by ange-ears 9 as shown in The back plate 8 has stamped from the upper and lower portions thereof legs 10 and 11 which are bent in reverse direction to afford feed elements 101 and 111.

From the back plate 8 are also stamped side legs 12 having laterally directed feet elements 121.` The feet elements 101 and 111 Specification of Letters Patent.

consists in features of con-I Patented Oct. 25, 1921. Serial No. 441,794.

are provided with key-hole shaped apertures 102 and 112v for engaging headed screws or nails, as 13 Fig. 3, protruding from a table top or a vertical wall for engaging the holder to the same.

Openings 14 obtained by stamping said legs from the rear plate 8 serve, supplemental to vent holes 1411, for the passage of air into and from the chamber 15 of the body for rendering the latter cool.

s an additional safeguard against acci dental fire a sheet 16 of asbestos, or other poor heat conducting material7 is desirably secured to the back of the body as by tongues 17 stamped from the plate 8.

The front wall or face plate 6 of the body is provided with a pair of transversely arranged slots 18 adjacent to the upper end of the body and a second pair of similarly arranged slots 19 is provided near its lower end. The iron holding device proper, hereinafter designated as the cage, is preferably formed of a single piece of sprin wire which is bent to provide centrally of its length a loop or loops 20 and arms 21 extending therefrom to bends 22, the above named parts of the cage are housed within the body chamber 15 as shown by dotted lines in Flg. 1 and by full lines in Fig. 3.

From the bends 22, post elements 23 extend outwardly through slots 19 to bends 24C, thence by longitudinal elements 25 to bends 26 wherefrom tie elements 27 extend through slots 18 and terminate in hook shaped ends 28 which take against the face plate 6 within the chamber 15. The associated cage elements 23, 25 and 27 constitute wing members, one at each side of the longitudinal axis of the body, and are yieldingly held by the resiliency of the loops 20 to have the post and tie elements 23 and 27 of each wing bear against the inner ends of the respective slots, 19 and 18. The lengths of said post and tie elements are such that when the body B of an iron, denoted by broken lines in Figs. 1 and 3, is juxtaposed with the face plate 6, the longitudinal elements 25 of the wings will overlay the iron body.

To obviate the polishing face of an iron adhering to the face plate 6 of the holder said plate is desirably corrugated by the provision of longitudinal ridges 29 and grooves 30. f

of an electrlc iron, when the device is ap- 2o gageable by the heel end of the iron to bear attached to the lower foot 111.

For operation my device is secured by means of screws 13, Fig. 3, to a table or against a vertical wall with the legs 10, 11 and 12 retaining the body member 5 away from the same. The iron is introduced point end iirst, through the opening obtaining between the post elements 23 of the cage wings thereby spreading the latter. apart until the heel end of the iron passes beyond such post elements, whereupon the resilient power of the loops 20 and arms 21 act to restore the wings to their normal positions in which they are represented in Fig. 1. When this occurs the iron is engaged beneath the longitudinal elements 25 and between the tie elements 27. When the device is used in a vertical position attached to a wall, the post elements 23 serve as bracket supports enthe weight of the iron. To withdraw the iron the operator simply moves the iron, point first, through the opening between the stay elements 27 to spread that end of the wings suiciently apart for the egress of the iron.

The device is of inexpensive cost and convenient to use.

What I claim is,-

1. A sad-iron holder comprisin a hollow body portion, wing devices exten ing therefrom and coperatlng with said body to support a sad-iron in elther an upright or horizontal position, and resilient means provided interiorly of said body and serving to connect said wing devices with each other for relative movements with respect to each' other and laterally of said body portion.

2. A sad-iron holder of the character described, comprising a hollow body having slots in the face thereof, supporting legs extending from the rear of said body, a wire device provided with a' spring portion 1nteriorly 'of the body and extending therefrom vthrough said slots to afford separable wing members exteriorly of the body to receive and support a sad-iron..

3. A sad-iron holder of the character described comprising a body provided with rearwardly extending supporting legs, wing devices provided at opposite sides of the longitudinal axis of said body, and resilient means connected to said wing devices for yieldingly holding the latter to'aiord a sad-l iron retaining means, said wing devices being movable laterally by the sad-iron when progressively inserting and withdrawing the same into and from the space between the wing devices.-

4L A sad-'ron holder having a hollow body portion provided in the front wall thereof with two pairs of 'spaced slots, one pair of said slots being disposed adjacent to the top and the other pair of slots be' disposed adjacent to the bottom of saidA dy, and means coperating with said body for releasablyconnecting a sad-iron to the latter,

said means consistin oa single plece of PIERRE BARNES, MAReARE'r G. Smm. 

